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In NYC, Prime Grill seems to be the favorite among the velvet kipa crowd, but I personally think it's pretty bad by any normal, non-kosher restaurant standard. Solo is the best fine-dining kosher restaurant I've ever been to. I don't think I'd ever send someone there who didn't have a reason to eat at a kosher place, but if you have to eat at a kosher place, it's quite acceptable food-wise (especially if someone else is buying).
As for truly good kosher restaurants that I'd actually send people to who didn't keep kosher... there aren't many. But Azuri Cafe at 51st and 10th (a little falafel place) and the famed 2nd Ave Deli (no longer on 2nd Ave) both rock. Unfortunately, some folks may not accept their kosher certifications.
BC Chairman Don Lents actually commented on this publicly:
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/11/a-chat-about-sa.html
Note that this isn't exactly a return to 2006. Assuming the chart over at Autoadmit (http://www.lawfirmdiscussion.com/compensation/newyork06salary.php) is correct:
*1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th year associates are still making more in 2009 than they would have made under the pre-'07 salary scale
*3rd and 5th years are making the same as they would have if Simpson hadn't raised the bar.
*4th years are getting paid $5k LESS than they would have made under the old scale.
You need to study and learn from boingboing's comment moderation policy. They do a really superb job. Comments appear almost instantly, and the offensive/stupid ones don't get deleted--they get disemvoweled, which is a quite ingenious way of dealing with them. The result is a much more intelligent brand of commenting than can be found around these parts.
Until I read the comments, I thought the "message" was that all the women watching eat too much and should be more like the anorexic freaks in the commercial.
Then I read the comments, watched again, and noticed the bushes getting trimmed. Awesome.
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This has been a long-running issue.
There are two competing plastinated body exhibits, which have very different approaches to the consent issue.
BodyWorlds was the original plastinated bodies exhibit. Its organizers claim they only use bodies that were donated to science with full consent, generally by Europeans.
Bodies the Exhibition is the one that uses "unclaimed" bodies from China. The organizers claim that these bodies are not executed prisoners, but given that the bodies tend to come from the police, nobody really seems to know whether there might be executed prisons among them or not.
See this NYTimes article from 2006:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/business/worldbusiness/08bodies.html?pagewanted=all
Because of the whole "unclaimed" bodies thing, I won't go to the NYC exhibit, even though I'd very much like to see it. One of these days I hope to get a chance to see the BodyWorlds one, though.